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not sure if we should tweet this but if it saves a life it's worth it: Kamen Rider Ryuuki is the most potent antipsychotic of a tv series we've ever seen, an incredibly wise friend of ours recommended it to us and it has very literally kept us sane to an unbelievable degree

if your brain is undergoing what we hypothesise to be an “excitatory crisis” where it sees the wrong patterns everywhere and gets more and more unbalanced about this, spending even just half an hour forcing yourself to watch a show that's this I Love Not Thinking is really good

everything about the cinematography, pacing, and writing makes it not only very very good for fixing your brain's pattern recognition and getting it to calm down, it also makes it very very good for a state where you can quite literally Not Think. and to top it all off, it's peak

it is a show for people who want to not have to think at all while watching, one could say “for children” but it suits adults just as well, and when you are in psychosis you can quite literally not think, it's so absolutely perfect for this, please… remember the name at least

we said it's peak already, but like, it really is incredibly good, absolutely perfect tokusatsu æsthetically, as much fun to watch when you're lucid and sober as when your brain is downright completely nonfunctional, highly recommended

just look at the opening it will sell you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGVS623lFw

(and if not, the first episode probably will, we hope)

oh and to be clear while in principle any sufficiently normal-brained anime or film or whatever could do this antipsychotic thing, we now know from visceral experience that not all can; Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is an example that's much, much worse at this!

being a programmer do be like this sometimes

this is your brain on psychosis

wish we were more literate in like, most kinds of cinematographic decisions, because this show's shot composition and staging and so on always fascinate us, and we have no real idea why, except for this insight: it's a bit more like a stage play than it is like a normal TV drama?

it's both a wonderful and a very unfortunate thing that we first got to experience this show during a period of, you know, our brain not working properly, but even at the worst of this it's been clear to us it's really something quite special; we know we love it, just not why

ah yeah, one other thing that can be said: you can tell it was made for TV back when TV was a real thing: 60Hz, standard definition, expected to be watched on a small box; everything's super legible, but it's also so beautiful that it's actually fun to watch on a 1080p monitor

one thing about this show is that, because it's a little bit goofy, because everything is exaggerated, they're able to just do cool-ass shit to set the atmosphere of scenes all the time without it feeling too much; there's so much lighting and prop bullshit going on constantly

the last scene here may be a good example: a character shows up out of nowhere to talk to another character, and suddenly the lighting in the scene changes in an incredibly obvious, obnoxious way, with no diegetic justification whatsoever, but it looks cool and sets the mood!

It's your girl, Momoka, and we're hopping back on the Kamen Rider Ryuuki train because this show is still peak and we're missing it, though thankfully we're no longer insane.

Here, have a substantial clip of the OP from the first episode of Kamen Rider Ryuuki, plus a bit of what happens before and after it. I think this sells the show better than any amount of words could.

it struck me just now that of all the shows we've been watching recently, Kamen Rider ought to be one of the easiest to watch unsubtitled, so I'm going to try that I think

also uhh oh god bumping this thread feels weird given the psychotic context of the original tweets but yeah

I think we've watched the first… 21 episodes? which means we have 29 left. it's a long series!

man 60fps television is so cool

metal pipe moment lmao

finished episode 22! time to add two dozen words to our anki deck

oomf has hopped on kamen rider ryuuki recently and that's reminded me that we've been slacking. just finished episodes 24 and 25, so we're finally halfway…

Kamen Rider Ryuuki episode 29 is… a bona fide filler episode? has there ever been one of these in this series prior? there's this silly stalking/kidnapping subplot that has absolutely no relation to the main story whatsoever. it's fun antics as usual though. this series rules

frankly amazing how much variety and creativity the series manages to find in the real-world stuff

Kamen Rider Ryuuki episode 30 is also filler but takes the absurdity to the next level, what the fuck was Inoue Toshiki on

asakura is such a fun character, i love him

Kamen Rider Ryuuki episode 36: Now That's What I Call Television, hell yeah

ohhh. the 夢, they 踊れ. i love it when they do that

[i fucking hate bumping this thread because i wrote it originally while Literally Insane and so while it did help with the mania the statement that it's an "antipsychotic" is a bad description; olanzapine is Unpleasant]

(but i'm the kind of idiot who insists on bumping her old threads even if they're embarassing, so… yeah. anyway. i love 『Alive A life』, it's such a good opening. I sang it at a karaoke session sometime late last year, I wish I knew the full-size words though lmao)

having a "japanese name readings are funny" moment looking at the name 森本和義, because "morimoto" is a perfectly normal reading for the first two kanji, but "kazuyoshi" is almost almost entirely made up of readings only used in given names. in any case it's a very ordinary name

ahhh, it's a plain-as-hell name for a character meant to be utterly unremarkable. it's nice when your intuition means something

man, remember when you had to send in photographs to have them developed?

i love science

episode 39… this show is really kicking into high gear. there's even a shaman rider now

@hikari

@neauoire i have to know where this is from!!

@hikari I picked it up from tumblr a few years back, but I think it's from one of the Mothra movies.